Sock Thief Society — guidance before your puppy comes home, and support as you grow and learn together.
Choosing a puppy is exciting, but knowing where to start can feel overwhelming. Rescue or breeder? Which breed might suit your lifestyle? What should you be looking for in a breeder? What to ask a breeder? What should you look for when visiting a litter? All questions I can help with.
I’m Clare Dalton, the Puppy Consultant behind Sock Thief Society. I offer personal, one-to-one online guidance and reward-based puppy training for owners across Ireland.
Choosing a Puppy with Confidence gives you space to think through your options before committing. We explore your everyday life, what you hope for in a dog, breed tendencies, and the questions worth asking about a puppy’s health, upbringing and early experiences. You’ll leave with clearer priorities and practical next steps to help you make an informed decision.
Get Ready for Puppy helps you prepare for their arrival: setting up your home, planning the first days and nights, and understanding toileting, sleep, mouthing and settling in.
For puppies already home, I offer focused support and a six-week Puppy Journey. We work on the things that are important to you and your littlest family member —sometimes it's the puppy biting, chewing, best practice for toilet training to foundational cues and recall foundations aswell as learning body language, how puppies learn and build confidence and how to set up your daily life and routines for the best results.
With online sessions, we work on the things that matter right where they happen—in your home and your everyday life with your puppy. I'll ask you to send me videos as you practise, so I can see how you’re both getting on and when you're ready to advance to the next steps and when it's not going as easily as you'd like, I'll offer pointers where something needs a little adjustment. With weekday support along the way, you have someone to help you work things out as you go.
The aim is to help you understand your puppy, feel more confident teaching them and discover the joys of having a little budle of chaos in your life.
Explore the services, prices and online booking at sockthiefsociety.com, or email
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